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By Tomoki Matsubara / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Since assuming the post of Bank of Japan governor two years ago, Haruhiko Kuroda has taken steps to overcome deflation and press ahead with bold monetary easing measures, basically in line with ...The Japan News, 1 week ago

TOKYO -- In April 2013, the Bank of Japan introduced its quantitative and qualitative monetary easing program to help pull the country out of deflation. Nearly two years later, the bank's 2% inflation target is still out of reach, not least of all ...

Haruhiko Kuroda's monetary bazooka just got outgunned by the Swiss. Since April 2013, Japan's central banker has been pumping trillions of dollars into the economy in an attempt to generate 2 percent inflation. But in a mature, aging economy like ...

Four years after the Bank of Japan set a 2 percent inflation target, price gains may still be coming up short, according to a survey of economists by Bloomberg News. Consumer prices will rise an average 1.4 percent the fiscal year through March ...

TOKYO -- A Bank of Japan policy board member who opposed additional monetary easing in October shared his concerns with the public on Monday. Explaining his dissenting vote, Yoshihisa Morimoto said that scaled-up asset purchases could distort market ...

(Bloomberg) -- Fast-aging developed nations could confront rising inflation pressures, Bank for International Settlements and Bank of Finland researchers found, challenging the hypotheses of current and former policy makers. The young and old ...

The Bank of Japan expanded and extended a lending program set to expire in March to assist Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's bid to stoke inflation, the bank said in a statement today. The central bank increased the main part of the Growth-Supporting ...

Draghi asked for more powers for European Institutions to push through structural reforms that has been cancelled by vested powers. Japan's failed attempts at structural reforms is instructive of the difficulities involved. Europe's lack of ...

Indeed, at the seminar, European economists and journalists especially the Germans, and even some of the Britons in the room adopted a dismissive tone. Monetary policy's power is limited, particularly when the interest rate is so low, some said.

Shutterstock What's at stake: A view has appeared arguing that the low-inflation environment experienced by advanced economies may be structural, rather than cyclical. Although this view remains based on thin empirical evidence and still needs to ...